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This study compares the performance of four popular factor pricing models—the capital asset-pricing model (Sharpe, 1964), the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993), the four-factor model of Carhart (1997), and the five-factor model of Fama and French (2015a)—testing their explanatory...
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Various studies report that investing in “sin stocks”, that is firms which make money from human vice, such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling and weapons, has historically delivered significantly positive abnormal returns. This finding has inspired the hypothesis that sin stocks are being...
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Using a novel dataset of leveraged loan trades executed by managers of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), we document the importance of "active loan trades" -- trades executed at a manager's discretion. More active trading increases the returns to CLO equity investors, lowers collateral...
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This theoretical paper seeks to correct a common error about the effect of personal taxation on the expected pre-tax return earned on equity portfolios held by mutual funds in tax-sheltered retirement plans such as IRA and Keogh (401-k). Contrary to the prevailing view, the analysis reveals that...
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This paper presents a new definition of market completeness that is independent of the notions of no arbitrage and … Theorem of Asset Pricing, even in complex economies. Second, under our definition, the market can be complete yet arbitrage … assumption of no arbitrage and when used in the standard models, our definition is equivalent to the traditional one …
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The collateralized loan obligation, CLO, market withstood the recent financial crisis with minimal losses compared to other structured asset-backed securities. Furthermore, the issuance of new CLOs is now above pre-crisis levels, prompting an understanding of what drives CLO performance. A...
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Many monetary studies on the portfolio balance effect omit its impact to equity returns. Motivated through a simple general equilibrium model, we study how changes in the bond supply affect the overall equity market. Our model predicts that exogenous increases (decreases) in the bond supply...
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The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on inflation-adjusted bonds, swaps, and derivatives. The methodology for valuation and risk management of these securities is an application of the foreign currency extension of a standard HJM term structure model. The two “currencies” in...
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by mispricing rather than risk. In consequence, it is boosted by high limits to arbitrage but gradually diminishes over …
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, we rule out the risk-based explanation and find this effect is partially driven by limits-to-arbitrage and limited …
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